Fox News: 'Reason' and the 'Age of Enlightenment' led to the Holocaust

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Fox News: 'Reason' and the 'Age of Enlightenment' led to the Holocaust

The continuing anti-science/anti-secular message of the GOP and the right-wing media continues. In an attempt to attack the "National Day of Reason," Fox and their guest blame science and reason for the Holocaust, what's next?

I guess FOX News never heard of the Spanish Inquisition, which, in part, forced Spanish Jews, Muslims, and other assorted "heretics" to renounce their faith for Catholicism or face torture until they did. If they refused to convert, the "heretics" were murdered in various gruesome ways.

Then there are all the stories about Christian Crusaders murdering every man, woman and child in the cities they took, and even committing cannibalism . When you get down to it, the real difference was scale related population density in the Dark Ages compared to the mid 20th Century.

That's "Christian" reasoning for you.

Fox News: 'Reason' and the 'Age of Enlightenment' led to the Holocaust

The Republican party has consistently taken steps away from science over the years and the right-wing media is no exception. The leading voice for conservatism, Fox News, is once again pushing an anti-science message, this time tying in one of most tragic events in history with it.

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx recently declared May 2 as both a "Day of Prayer" and a "Day of Reason," giving religious and secular Americans a day to promote their own values. Appearing on the Fox News show "Fox and Friends," the CEO of the Christian organization "Concerned Women for America," Penny Nace was asked by Fox News host Steve Doocy why she thought the mayor would tie both a religious and secular day together.

“He comes from North Carolina, which has the 7th highest church attendance, clearly he’s not running for re-election since he’s up for transportation secretary...You know, G. K. Chesterton said that the Doctrine of Original Sin is the only one which we have 3,000 years of empirical evidence to back up. Clearly, we need faith as a component and it’s just silly for us to say otherwise....You know, the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism. And moral relativism is what led us all the way down the dark path to the Holocaust… Dark periods of history is what we arrive at when we leave God out of the equation.”

Fox News has had a history of attacking secular guests and coddling religious extremists. Before his death in 2011, author, journalist and atheist, Christopher Hitchens had multiple heated debates with Fox News commentators, most notably Sean Hannity. It's not surprising that Fox News would promote someone with anti-secular views, but to tie science and reason to something as tragic as the Holocaust might be going too far, even for Fox News.

"'The National Day of Prayer' violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution because it asks federal, state, and local government entities to set aside tax dollar supported time and space to engage in religious ceremonies."

Until people settled into cities with agriculture (before existing in nomadic fashion as hunter/gatherers), there was little chance of large scale military conquests and the atrocities and genocides those brought.

The one example to the contrary might be the Israelites genociding all before them as they took Caanan while still kind of a nomadic people themselves, although they'd come out of a high civilization (Egypt) already existing.

The continuing anti-science/anti-secular message of the GOP and the right-wing media continues. In an attempt to attack the "National Day of Reason," Fox and their guest blame science and reason for the Holocaust, what's next?

I guess FOX News never heard of the Spanish Inquisition, which, in part, forced Spanish Jews, Muslims, and other assorted "heretics" to renounce their faith for Catholicism or face torture until they did. If they refused to convert, the "heretics" were murdered in various gruesome ways.

Then there are all the stories about Christian Crusaders murdering every man, woman and child in the cities they took, and even committing cannibalism . When you get down to it, the real difference was scale related population density in the Dark Ages compared to the mid 20th Century.

That's "Christian" reasoning for you.

Fox News: 'Reason' and the 'Age of Enlightenment' led to the Holocaust

The Republican party has consistently taken steps away from science over the years and the right-wing media is no exception. The leading voice for conservatism, Fox News, is once again pushing an anti-science message, this time tying in one of most tragic events in history with it.

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx recently declared May 2 as both a "Day of Prayer" and a "Day of Reason," giving religious and secular Americans a day to promote their own values. Appearing on the Fox News show "Fox and Friends," the CEO of the Christian organization "Concerned Women for America," Penny Nace was asked by Fox News host Steve Doocy why she thought the mayor would tie both a religious and secular day together.

“He comes from North Carolina, which has the 7th highest church attendance, clearly he’s not running for re-election since he’s up for transportation secretary...You know, G. K. Chesterton said that the Doctrine of Original Sin is the only one which we have 3,000 years of empirical evidence to back up. Clearly, we need faith as a component and it’s just silly for us to say otherwise....You know, the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism. And moral relativism is what led us all the way down the dark path to the Holocaust… Dark periods of history is what we arrive at when we leave God out of the equation.”

Fox News has had a history of attacking secular guests and coddling religious extremists. Before his death in 2011, author, journalist and atheist, Christopher Hitchens had multiple heated debates with Fox News commentators, most notably Sean Hannity. It's not surprising that Fox News would promote someone with anti-secular views, but to tie science and reason to something as tragic as the Holocaust might be going too far, even for Fox News.

"'The National Day of Prayer' violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution because it asks federal, state, and local government entities to set aside tax dollar supported time and space to engage in religious ceremonies."